Window Rebates in Canada 2026: A Province-by-Province Breakdown

For years, the federal government anchored home-efficiency rebates, and windows were part of the deal. That anchor has been pulled up. Natural Resources Canada confirms that the Canada Greener Homes Grant has closed to new applicants, with the final window for existing participants to submit their paperwork having passed at the end of 2025. While it ran, that program reimbursed up to $325 per rough opening for qualifying windows and doors, and it delivered well over a billion dollars to hundreds of thousands of households. It was generous, and it is genuinely finished.

What is replacing it is narrower than many people expect. The new federal effort, the Canada Greener Homes Affordability Program, is built for low-to-median-income households and leans toward no-cost insulation and heat pump installations delivered through each province. It is rolling out gradually across the country, and it is a real benefit for the families it serves. It is simply not a windows-for-everyone rebate, so if your household income sits above the threshold, you should not count on it for your glass.

There is also movement worth watching. Ottawa has signalled interest in restarting a broader homeowner grant and expanding heat pump support, though as of now homeowners are still waiting on confirmed funding and timelines. My advice is to plan your project around what is funded today and treat any federal revival as a pleasant surprise rather than a line in your budget.

Before we go region by region, here is the whole country at a glance. Find your province, get a feel for the order of magnitude, then read the detail that follows. Remember that these are headline figures, and that eligibility, caps, and certification rules shape what actually lands in your account.

One quick note before the details. If you are still deciding whether new windows are worth it at all, it helps to pair this rebate picture with a clear sense of what the work itself costs, which our guide to what homeowners actually pay to replace windows lays out by window type and region. A rebate only feels meaningful once you know the bill it is reducing.

The West is where the spread is widest, so this is where knowing your province pays off the most.

British Columbia

British Columbia runs its window and door support through the CleanBC Better Homes program, and how much you receive comes down to your household income. The standard, non-income rebate is modest, landing around $100 per qualifying window up to roughly $2,000 for the home. The income-qualified stream is where the serious money lives, reaching as high as $950 per window or door and approaching $9,500 in total, with the program covering the lion's share of the cost for the lowest-income tier. To qualify on the income side, your home generally needs to be a year-round primary residence at least a year old, and there are assessed-value limits to keep in mind. Across both streams, your windows must meet a defined performance level, you need to register and get approval before the work begins, and the installation has to be done by a contractor registered with the program.

Alberta

I'll be straight with you here, because you deserve a clear answer rather than a hopeful one. Alberta has no province-wide window rebate in 2026. What exists instead is financing, not free money. Through participating cities, the Clean Energy Improvement Program lets you spread the cost of efficiency upgrades, including windows, onto your property tax bill over time. The City of Edmonton's Clean Energy Improvement Program is a good example of how this works locally, and Calgary runs its own version. Some municipalities sweeten things with small completion incentives, but these are limited and tend to go quickly, so the practical move is to check whether your city participates before you assume anything is available.

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan's offering is real but on its way out, so timing is everything. The Home Efficiency Retrofit Rebate from SaskEnergy and SaskPower rewards building-envelope work, including high-performance windows and doors, with up to $1,800 plus a little extra toward your energy evaluations. The catch is that the program was structured around the now-closed federal grant, and the rebate is listed as available only until the end of April 2026. If you are a Saskatchewan homeowner reading this with a project in mind, treat the program as closing rather than wide open, and confirm your standing before you commit to anything.

Manitoba

Manitoba keeps it refreshingly simple. Efficiency Manitoba's windows and doors rebate pays $100 for each ENERGY STAR certified triple-pane window or door you install, with the application and invoice due within ninety days of the work. The triple-pane requirement is the part to plan around, because a double-pane unit will not qualify here even if it is efficient. Manitoba also offers a higher rebate of $300 per opening for eligible First Nations and Métis applicants, which is worth asking about directly.

If you are weighing whether that third pane earns its keep, our breakdown of double-glazed versus triple-glazed windows walks through when the upgrade pays off in a Canadian climate.

These two provinces are home to the most straightforward, broadly available window rebates in the country, and they are the reason a lot of homeowners come out ahead.

Ontario

Ontario's active program is the Home Renovation Savings Program, delivered by Save on Energy together with Enbridge Gas and backed by the province. Windows and doors earn $100 back per rough opening, provided they are ENERGY STAR certified. The important detail is that this is a bundled program, so you start with a home energy assessment, which itself comes with a rebate, and then complete two or more upgrades to unlock your rebates. That structure rewards homeowners who pair windows with insulation or air sealing rather than doing glass alone. One more thing for Ontarians: the older Enbridge Home Efficiency Rebate is closed, so ignore any page still pointing you there.

If you want the full step-through, our deep dive on Ontario's Home Renovation Savings Program walks through eligibility and the application path from the assessment onward.

Quebec

Quebec offers what might be the cleanest deal in the country. Through the Rénoclimat program, the province grants $150 for each existing door or window you replace with an ENERGY STAR certified model, calculated per rough opening. There is no income test, which makes it broadly accessible. The process is built around energy evaluations: a Rénoclimat advisor assesses your home before the work and again afterward, and your home's energy rating needs to improve for the assistance to flow. Quebec homeowners can also stack Rénoclimat with Hydro-Québec's LogisVert incentives, so it is worth exploring both rather than stopping at the first.

The Maritimes and Newfoundland and Labrador tell four different stories, so let's take them one at a time.

New Brunswick

New Brunswick's Total Home Energy Savings Program from NB Power scales your reward to your ambition. Windows and doors earn $30 per opening on their own, $40 per opening when paired with two primary upgrades, and $50 per opening once you complete three or more. The windows need to meet the ENERGY STAR standard for the local climate zone, and the program begins with an affordable home energy evaluation, after which you have nine months to finish the work and book the final assessment. It rewards a whole-home plan rather than a one-off swap.

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia channels its support through Efficiency Nova Scotia, and the door to the window rebates is a home energy assessment. Complete the assessment, and you open up rebates on recommended upgrades, including energy-efficient windows and doors, within a package that can reach up to $5,000 across all the improvements. Your home needs to be at least six months old, and you cannot have already started the renovations, so book the assessment before you pick up a single tool.

Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island folds windows and doors into efficiencyPEI's rebate programs alongside insulation and air sealing, and like its Maritime neighbours, the Island requires a home energy assessment before any work begins. The province adjusted its rebate schedule in 2025, raising some amounts while trimming others, so the smart move is to confirm the current per-opening figure on the official page before you order. If the upfront cost is a hurdle, the Island also offers a financing route to spread out materials and installation.

Newfoundland and Labrador

Here is another place where I would rather be honest than encouraging. Newfoundland and Labrador's main program, takeCHARGE, is focused on insulation and heat pumps rather than windows and doors, and the province's income-targeted housing support is not a general window rebate either. In practice, that means there is no broad window rebate for most homeowners in the province in 2026. If your windows are tired, the better play may be to direct any available efficiency support toward insulation and heating, where the dollars actually exist, and to treat the windows as a comfort-and-value decision rather than a rebate-driven one.

The territories run their own efficiency programs, and they deserve a quick, careful mention rather than a confident number. In the Northwest Territories, the Arctic Energy Alliance administers rebates that can include building-envelope upgrades, and Yukon and Nunavut maintain their own energy and housing efficiency supports. Because amounts and eligibility shift and vary by community, I would not want to quote you a figure that might be stale by the time you apply. If you live in the North, go straight to your territorial program's page or give them a call, since a short conversation will tell you more than any general guide can.

Across all these programs, the dollar amounts get the attention, but the rules around timing and paperwork are what actually decide whether you get paid. The single most common way homeowners forfeit a rebate is by buying and installing first and asking questions later. Several provinces require a home energy assessment, a pre-approval, or both before you purchase, and once the old windows are in the dumpster, there is usually no way to claim retroactively. So the very first call you make should be to the program in your province, not to the window company.

Certification is the next pillar. Almost every program in the country expects ENERGY STAR certified windows and doors, and some go further, like Manitoba's triple-pane rule or New Brunswick's climate-zone requirement. The relevant climate zone can change which exact model qualifies, so confirm the certification details with your installer in writing rather than assuming a sticker is enough. It also helps to understand that most programs pay per rough opening, not per pane of glass. A three-section bay window sitting in a single framed opening counts as one opening, which can meaningfully change the math when you are estimating your total.

The last pillar is simply keeping your evidence. Hold onto your invoices and your ENERGY STAR labels, since programs often ask to see them at the final evaluation, and book that closing assessment promptly when required. If you are bundling, which is where the bigger payouts live in Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, plan the whole project at once so your windows, insulation, and air sealing all count toward the same claim. Our overview of attic insulation upgrade options is a natural companion if you are looking for an upgrade to pair with new windows.

Let's set expectations with kindness and honesty. In most provinces, a window rebate will offset a slice of your project rather than transform the price, since a few hundred dollars across several openings is welcome but rarely decisive on a multi-thousand-dollar job. The exception is the income-qualified stream in British Columbia, which can cover a substantial share for the households it is designed for. For everyone else, the rebate is best understood as a helpful discount layered on top of the two benefits that really justify new windows: a more comfortable, draft-free home and lower energy bills year after year.

That reframe is freeing, because it takes the pressure off chasing the rebate as the whole point. The biggest 2026 opportunity is not any single window cheque, it is bundling. When you combine windows with insulation, air sealing, or a heat pump in provinces that reward whole-home projects, the stacked incentives start to add up to real money, and the comfort gains compound too. If a heating upgrade is anywhere on your horizon, it is worth reading how switching to a heat pump can fold into the same plan. Start with the assessment, build a project rather than a purchase, and let the rebate be the bonus rather than the goal.